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Lowrider...... idea of U.N. in the future

robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
Hmmm...I wonder Lowrider, from the comment in the other thread, how long do you think it will be before the Earth becomes like what we've seen on sci fi movies? I mean like with the entire planet populated, almost no land available for farming, etc., and under control of one government for the benefit of the whole planet? Think it could ever happen? If so, I bet it would fall under control of something similar to the U.N. I'd say the way the population has increased in the last 200 hundred years we only have about another 100 years before the scenario above is a reality, unless some catastrophic war or disease comes along and thins out the poulation. Could it be that the U.N. is going to serve as the model for a world governing body in the future?

SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    They'd sure as hell like that authority.

    I know what you mean about overpopulation. It just gripes me to hear the radical environmentalists crying about how industry and development are ruining the ecosystem, and the peaceniks crying about the world-wide threat of war from actions of the US and others, but you hear damn little from any of those folks about the most serious threat we face on this planet today. OVERPOPULATION. I don't give a damn how many environmentally-friendly products we start using, or even if we all start driving electric cars, stop the logging, quit using herbicides and pesticides or whatever...the human race will not survive much longer unless we put a stop to the world-wide population explosion, and most likely we'd have to reverse the trend and actually lower the population to get back to some sustainable level.

    I picture the earth in another 200 years looking like an ant hill where everyone has about five square feet to call their own and there's not enough food or water to go around.

    Nobody seems to care, least of all the Pope.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Lowrider, those same enviro freaks are the same ones inhabiting new homes in developments that used to be farm land.
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  • CAndres35CAndres35 Member Posts: 453 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    and yet we are paying the farmers to not grow crops??? CARL
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  • BoyWonderBoyWonder Member Posts: 63 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The population of Europe is actually declining. Europeans are a dying breed. The population of the United States is growing slowly. We'll all wish the world government looked like the UN. It will look like North African Muslims...ask anyone in the Netherlands, their very liberal society is being voted out from under them by conservative immigrants.

    Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. -Demosthenes
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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    You can take the world's population and stick it all in the corner of the state of Oregon. They won't be packed in like sardines either. They can move around in some small personal space. Don't be brainwashed into believing the world is going to overpopulate itself.
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  • TheguncounterkidTheguncounterkid Member Posts: 224 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sorry man, we dont want em here! damn people would ruin my rabbit and sagerat grounds. Try Kalifornia..its ruined already.
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    6 billion people in the corner of Oregon? Hardly.

    Sorry, but my brains don't wash. I arrive at my opinions all by myself.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    96harley,
    I gotta go with 'lowrider' on this one. Maybe you havent been to the California Coast lately. Take all the population of just that area, and try to stick it into a corner of Oregon, it aint gonna fit. Trust me on this one. Maybe you meant without houses or a place to shop, I dont know, but your idea is out there bud.

    As far as the population of Europe goes, maybe, I dont know, but the population here is definitely growing quicker than I thought it would, at least where I'm originally from, and that aint exactly a place to live, makes you wonder.

    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    I'll bet at one time the people in India or Bangladesh didn't think their country would end up like it is today. Standing room only.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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  • thesoundguy1thesoundguy1 Member Posts: 680 ✭
    edited November -1
    "If it don't fit,force it."
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  • db3sdb3s Member Posts: 33 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If you honestly believe that overpopulation is destroying the world, the only ethical course is suicide.
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  • MercuryMercury Member Posts: 7,830 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Many of the worlds "future" over-population problems are here NOW!

    Something like 2/3 of the people in the world don't have access to fresh water. This isn't 50 years from now, this is NOW.

    Think there isn't a population problem? Go travel in some third world countries. That'll open your eyes very quickly.

    The US/Europe has very slow or no population growth, but the third world countries populations are doubling every 30 years (or 20? I can't remember what I had read...)

    Anyway, if you think that the population problem doesn't concern YOU, remember that people in Africa can affect the weather/environment HERE. (Remember those huge dust clouds a few months ago that came from the Sahara?)

    Merc

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  • Shootist3006Shootist3006 Member Posts: 4,171
    edited November -1
    db3s said quote:If you honestly believe that overpopulation is destroying the world, the only ethical course is suicide but that does not compute. If you truly believe the above, suicide OK but take 5 with you.

    Mercury quote: Something like 2/3 of the people in the world don't have access to fresh water. This isn't 50 years from now, this is NOW.
    What are they drinking?

    Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
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  • 4GodandCountry4GodandCountry Member Posts: 3,968
    edited November -1
    The process of natural selection will eventually establish limits to the population of man on earth. The old addage that the strong will servive is coming full circle. Once mans average lifespan was 30 to 35 years and through science and medicine man has manipulated his life expectancy up to 70 to 75 years. Now, all so many years after the discovery of penacillan, viruses and bacteria are becoming resistant to treatment. The aids epidemic is still in its fledgling state and gaining momentum. The proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction continue and mankind stands on the brink of its own destruction. Red tides, drought, flooding, famine, earthquakes, hurricanes, war and death ravage the planet. (Whew, sounds like times described in the bible that lead up to ARMAGEDON). Oh well, have a nice day anyway...

    When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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  • trooperchintrooperchin Member Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The bible says that a new world order will happen after he comes for his people. I guess i wont have to see that ne world order

    Go Army Beat Navy
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  • SUBMARINERSUBMARINER Member Posts: 1,362 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ALWAYS FORWARD THINKING AND INTELLIGENT THE SUBMARINER DID HIS PART TO THWART THE PROBLEM OF GLOBAL OVERPOPULATION ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO AND GOT HIM A VASECTOMY.I MAY SHOOT BLANKS BUT I SHOOT THEM OFTEN ENOUGH TO BE PROFICIENT

    SUBMARINE SAILOR,TRUCK DRIVER,NE'ER DO WELL, INSTIGATOR,AND RUSTY WALLACE FAN
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